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NASA Selects 3 Moon Landing Service Providers for Artemis Program

NASA's Apollo 11 mission to land the first humans on the moon involved the contributions of thousands of workers. We look forward to working with them to have o...

Top NASA Executive Who Handles 2024 Moon Landing Mission Resigns

NASA awarded the companies $77-97 million each for development of their landers. The most recent initiative was dubbed Artemis, after the goddess of the hunt ...

Hellish new 'Forbidden' planet discovered lurking in distant star system

Researchers from Queen's University Belfast were part of the worldwide team that uncovered the existence of NGTS-4b, which has already been given the slightly f...

SpaceX's Starlink satellites lighting up the nightsky but blinding telescope lenses

However, after the excitement calmed down, astronomers both professional and amateur seem to have concerns about the Starlink constellation obstructing their ...

Back off hose: Sydney facing serious water restrictions from next week

As water storage levels continue to plumment amid NSW's ongoing drought, the Berejiklian government has chose to bring in level one water restrictions ahead...

Antibiotic in Bangladesh rivers 300 times higher than safe level

Sites where antibiotics exceeded "safe" levels by the greatest degree were in Bangladesh, Kenya, Ghana, Pakistan and Nigeria, while a site in Austria was ra...

Tornadoes strafe Kansas City area in latest spasm of storms

Monday marked the record-tying 11th straight day with at least eight tornadoes in the USA, said Patrick Marsh, the Storm Prediction Center's warning coordinatio...

Malaysia to send back plastic waste to Canada, other foreign nations

Yesterday, nine shipping containers at Port Klang , west of Kuala Lumpur , were found to contain mislabelled plastic and non-recyclable waste, including a mix...

Severe Threat Increasing For Wednesday

Severe weather could occur. By mid to late afternoon, a second round of more severe storms with gusty winds are possible. Tomorrow will be a mix of sun an...

Memorial Day looks warm with severe storm chances by the evening!

Wed: High: 79 Partly cloudy, turning mostly cloudy. A cold front will be slowly dropping south across the area this evening and into the overnight, and that fro...

Few strong storms possible this evening

Meteorologist Mark Larson says most of Memorial Day Monday will be dry but there's more storms on the way to Kansas Tuesday , our break from wet weather will...

Moon mission leader leaves NASA after 45 days

Shares have spiked 20.5% in response. Mark Sirangelo, named six weeks ago as special assistant to NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, left the agency as NASA ...

Reading Mars' Deep Climate History in the Layers of its Ice Cap

NASA is offering to take a huge list of names on board the Mars 2020 rover's life-hunting trip, Space.com reports. Names will be delivered, stencilled ...

Giant asteroid and its moon to come close to Earth this weekend

A walnut-shaped asteroid almost a mile wide and with a moon of its own is expected to pass by Earth this weekend, traveling at 48,000 miles per hour. During...

Here’s David Epstein’s forecast for Memorial Day weekend

We have a break in the weather this afternoon with some sun coming through. A frontal system passing offshore should move along quickly enough to give us a ni...

Hot, sunny Memorial Day weekend ahead for New Orleans

Memorial Day in New Orleans will bring an early burst of summer heat, with highs in the 90s throughout the holiday weekend. Some sunshine breaking through the ...

18 pupils die in India fire

Most of the students are said to be between the ages of 14 and 17. "The rescue operation has ended and 15 people have died", the spokesman said. A few also ju...

SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket With 60 Satellites Lifts Off From Cape Canaveral

About an hour after liftoff, SpaceX deployed the 60 Starlink satellites in a "very low Earth orbit" of 440 kilometers above the surface. SpaceX and Boeing C...

Illegal ozone-depleting gases traced to rogue factories in eastern China

Before it was phased out CFC-11, or Chlorofluorocarbon-11, was widely used in the 1970s and 1980s as a refrigerant and to make foam insulation. Following the ...

Send your name to NASA to fly aboard Mars 2020 rover

The names will be dispatched with the Mars 2020 rover , which is now under construction. During that period, it is more energy-efficient to travel to Mars, a...

Fans say emotional farewell to The Big Bang Theory

The touching moment was a treat for " Big Bang Theory " fans, who had just finished bidding farewell to the characters they've grown to know and love over 12...

Here's What You Need to Know About Tomorrow's Blue Flower Moon

However, it's important to note that the third of four full moons in a given season is a true blue moon-an astronomical blue moon. Less than 4 hours later, ...

Australian voters tipped to elect Labor government

Shorten announced he would not contest the next Labor leadership ballot after the election. "We all loved Bob Hawke , we will miss him a great deal", Mr Sh...

Budget boost ‘good start’ to put astronauts on moon

If it all works out, America will have an outpost on the way to Mars, quietly orbiting in the gravity between Earth and its Moon. Astronaut James Irwin, lunar...

'Game of Thrones' Series Finale Photos Don't Reveal a Damn Thing

The images keep things cryptic but capture the general atmosphere following the destruction wrought in last week's episode, " The Bells ", during which Daenery...

EYOS Expeditions' Five Deeps mission successfully dives to deepest point on Earth

Don Walsh (left), who dived to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in 1960 with the US Navy , congratulates Victor Vescovo (right) on setting a new dive recor...

SpaceX Delays Launch of 60 Starlink Internet Satellites Over High Winds

NASA Names New Moon Landing Program Artemis After Apollo's Sister

Researchers re-analyzed seismic data they had from the moon to compare with the images gathered by the orbiter. The Moon's structure is nothing like Earth...

Deepest ever dive finds plastic bag at bottom of Mariana Trench

In the next step, the team said its scientists were going to perform tests on the creatures found to in order to have a clear picture about the percentage of p...

Study Finds Earth’s Moon Is Shrinking And Quaking

Astronauts have placed seismometers on the moon over a series of past missions . The Apollo 11 seismometer operated only for three weeks, but the four remainin...

American breaks record with deepest submarine dive ever, finds plastic waste

Canadian movie maker James Cameron was the last to visit in 2012 in his submarine, reaching a depth of 10,908 metres. Vescovo, a 53-year-old financier with ...

Tanker collision leaves thousands of gallons of gas product leaking into bay

The spill came after a collision in the channel Friday between a 755-foot oil tanker and a tug pushing two barges. There are no reported injuries at this ti...

New Infinitely-Recyclable Plastic Could Potentially Solve the Plastic Crisis

Prior to the discovery, the unpredictability of the properties had made it almost impossible to perform what has been coined "the Holy Grail of recycling", a "c...

Bezos company aims to take people to moon by 2024 — Blue Origin

This configuration could be used to send NASA astronauts to the surface of the Moon by 2024. Blue Origin is officially offering its new lander as an ascent ...

Canadian astronaut catches SpaceX capsule using Canadarm

PT Monday morning. Mr Saint-Jacques later described to NASA colleagues on Earth it was "a big moment of pride" to grab the Dragon using the station's 58ft (...